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Apple Is an AI Company Now

12 points by mgh2 3y ago

brucethemoose2 3y ago
I bet the CoreML block on the M4 series will be enormous.
orionblastar 3y ago
This is going to be more common. AI enabled apps. I can see Android implementing this too.
jcrash 3y ago
Would be awesome if Siri got a boost. She’s been better recently but still nowhere near chatGPT
syntaxing 3y ago
iOS 17 is extremely exciting. On phone AI like the keyboard is exactly why I have an iPhone after using android for a decade+.
wand3r 3y ago
I couldn't read the article because it's paid content, but I'd definiteley spam [x] to doubt. Apple is a hardware company and maybe a case could be made its a services company. It might be aspirationally positioning itself to benefit from AI but its not an AI company. Its kind of like a few years ago when everyone was "big data" or a "cloud company". AI is primarily going to be a technique or a feature. Yes companies like OpenAI may develop a superior model and API but primarily there won't be many pure AI companies. A lot of people are talking about AI for Law or AI for doctors. I don't think this will happen, much like Uber for [x] or Google for [x] really only materialized in some very narrow verticals.
- alwillis 3y ago
  > Apple is a hardware company and maybe a case could be made its a services company. It might be aspirationally positioning itself to benefit from AI but it's not an AI company. You can't take the author literally. All they're saying is that many of the best features coming in iOS 17 and macOS 14 are AI-based and it's pretty likely there will more big features coming in the future based on AI. I'm sure there's an entire AI story for Apple Vision Pro that we're not aware of yet. Every device running on Apple Silicon since 2017 has a neural engine [1] to speed up certain types of AI computations. That's many tens of millions of devices. And because Apple has frameworks and APIs in their operating systems, developers can add AI features without having to be AI experts themselves. I'd be shocked if Apple isn't working on device-based, privacy preserving generative AI right now. [1]: https://www.wired.com/story/apples-neural-engine-infuses-the-iphone-with-ai-smarts/ https://www.wired.com/story/apples-neural-engine-infuses-the...
FreshStart 3y ago
A new layer attaches itself to the growth layers of the past, who still supply the energy for the day to day. Will it stay after the spring has passed and it's depend on survival on the previous layers through the winter, unless it just becomes similar to them.
bsaul 3y ago
instead of having smarter autocorrect (which i'll probably disable anyway), i would heavily suggest changing the keyboard back to what it was in iOS 6 or 7. I don't remember exactly which version they started screwing up, but since that day my typing error rates have easily multiplied by 1.5

12 points by mgh2 3y ago

brucethemoose2 3y ago

I bet the CoreML block on the M4 series will be enormous.

orionblastar 3y ago

This is going to be more common. AI enabled apps. I can see Android implementing this too.

jcrash 3y ago

Would be awesome if Siri got a boost. She’s been better recently but still nowhere near chatGPT

syntaxing 3y ago

iOS 17 is extremely exciting. On phone AI like the keyboard is exactly why I have an iPhone after using android for a decade+.

wand3r 3y ago

I couldn't read the article because it's paid content, but I'd definiteley spam [x] to doubt. Apple is a hardware company and maybe a case could be made its a services company. It might be aspirationally positioning itself to benefit from AI but its not an AI company. Its kind of like a few years ago when everyone was "big data" or a "cloud company". AI is primarily going to be a technique or a feature. Yes companies like OpenAI may develop a superior model and API but primarily there won't be many pure AI companies. A lot of people are talking about AI for Law or AI for doctors. I don't think this will happen, much like Uber for [x] or Google for [x] really only materialized in some very narrow verticals.

alwillis 3y ago
> Apple is a hardware company and maybe a case could be made its a services company. It might be aspirationally positioning itself to benefit from AI but it's not an AI company. You can't take the author literally. All they're saying is that many of the best features coming in iOS 17 and macOS 14 are AI-based and it's pretty likely there will more big features coming in the future based on AI. I'm sure there's an entire AI story for Apple Vision Pro that we're not aware of yet. Every device running on Apple Silicon since 2017 has a neural engine [1] to speed up certain types of AI computations. That's many tens of millions of devices. And because Apple has frameworks and APIs in their operating systems, developers can add AI features without having to be AI experts themselves. I'd be shocked if Apple isn't working on device-based, privacy preserving generative AI right now. [1]: https://www.wired.com/story/apples-neural-engine-infuses-the-iphone-with-ai-smarts/ https://www.wired.com/story/apples-neural-engine-infuses-the...

FreshStart 3y ago

A new layer attaches itself to the growth layers of the past, who still supply the energy for the day to day. Will it stay after the spring has passed and it's depend on survival on the previous layers through the winter, unless it just becomes similar to them.

bsaul 3y ago

instead of having smarter autocorrect (which i'll probably disable anyway), i would heavily suggest changing the keyboard back to what it was in iOS 6 or 7. I don't remember exactly which version they started screwing up, but since that day my typing error rates have easily multiplied by 1.5